According to Freud, the remember story line of a dream.
What is the manifest content?
100
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle
What is the circadian rhythm?
100
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
100
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods.
What is a psychoactive drug?
200
The interdisciplinary study of the brain and activity linked with cognition.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
200
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind.
What is a dream?
200
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep.
What is REM (rapid eye movement) sleep?
200
A sleep disorder chacterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
What is sleep apnea?
200
The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect.
What is tolerance?
300
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
What is dual processing?
300
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is the latent content?
300
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
300
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus.
What are hallucinations?
300
Drugs (such as alcohol, barbitures, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
What are depressants?
400
Failing to notice changes in the environment.
What is change blindness?
400
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
400
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
400
A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified: occur during Stage 4 sleep.
What are night terrors?
400
Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine, and Ectasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body funcitons.
What are stimulants?
500
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
500
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
What is hypnosis?
500
Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
What is sleep?
500
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lase directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
What is narcolepsy?
500
Psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptons and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.